{"id":15978,"date":"2006-07-01T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2019-01-27T04:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T04:43:53","slug":"daredevil-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/2006\/07\/01\/daredevil-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambitious downtown Santa Ana building projects are only part of Michael Harrah\u2019s story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Called Santa Ana\u2019s patron saint of the arts, Mike Harrah is more than his gruff exterior would suggest.\u00a0 Opening the OC Pavilion Performing Arts Center in 2005 at a cost of $28 million, Harrah has transformed a former bank building into a state of the art music venue that\u2019s showcased such talent as Kenny G, Earth Wind and Fire, and Leann Rimes.\u00a0 Just above the music venue is Ambrosia, a fine dining restaurant the was first opened in the late 1960s on Balboa Peninsula. While Harrah has worked to make downtown Santa Ana arts and entertainment friendly, perhaps his most \u201csaintly\u201d act was his 5-month restoration of a vacant building in order for the Orange County High School of the Arts to keep its charter and open on time.\u00a0 Since the OCHSA\u2019s move from its Los Alamitos location to downtown Santa Ana, Harrah has given the school $1.8 million of his own money and renovated the adjoining building, a former Christian Science church, into a 206-seat performance hall.\u00a0 Harrah is a self-proclaimed \u201cultimate-risk taker\u201d and the largest tenant improvement contractor in Orange County, but he says it\u2019s never been about the money.\u00a0 He enjoys knowing that he\u2019ll be able to look back and see he gave back to the community.<\/p>\n

Read More in the July 2006 Orange Coast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ambitious downtown Santa Ana building projects are only part of Michael Harrah\u2019s story Called Santa Ana\u2019s patron saint of the arts, Mike Harrah is more than his gruff exterior would suggest.\u00a0 Opening the OC Pavilion Performing Arts Center in 2005 at a cost of $28 million, Harrah has transformed a former bank building into a state of the art music venue that\u2019s showcased such talent as Kenny G, Earth Wind and Fire, and Leann Rimes.\u00a0 Just above the music venue is Ambrosia, a fine dining restaurant the was first opened in the late 1960s on Balboa Peninsula. While Harrah has worked to make downtown Santa Ana arts and entertainment friendly, perhaps his most \u201csaintly\u201d act was his 5-month restoration of a vacant building in order for the Orange County High School of the Arts to keep its charter and open on time.\u00a0 Since the OCHSA\u2019s move from its Los Alamitos location to downtown Santa Ana, Harrah has given the school $1.8 million of his own money and renovated the adjoining building, a former Christian Science church, into a 206-seat performance hall.\u00a0 Harrah is a self-proclaimed \u201cultimate-risk taker\u201d and the largest tenant improvement contractor in Orange County, but he says it\u2019s never been about the money.\u00a0 He enjoys knowing that he\u2019ll be able to look back and see he gave back…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15980,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions\/15980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}